**Jose M. Requena**

Jose M. Requena is a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology (1990). He has been based at the Department of Molecular Biology (Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain) since 1998, where he teaches courses on biochemistry, molecular biology techniques, and microbiology. Since 2003, Dr. Requena is a group leader at Centro de Biologia Molecular Severo Ochoa (Madrid, Spain). His research is focused on the field of trypanosomatids, mainly *Leishmania* species, and includes topics like gene expression regulation, heat shock proteins, vaccines, genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, phylogenetics, and mechanisms of drug resistance. He serves as an editorial board member for several scientific journals, and is currently Editor-in-Chief for the 'Microbial Genetics and Genomics' section of *Genes*.
